#As

[gurutrends]

ECOWAS future uncertain as Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali quit

ECOWAS future uncertain as Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali quit The withdrawal of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso from the Economic Community of West African States takes effect on Wednesday after a year of political tensions, fracturing the region and leaving the bloc with an uncertain future. On January 29, 2024, the three countries led by military regimes formally notified ECOWAS of their desire for…

[endlessandrea]

Jordy Rosenberg on writing Confessions of a Fox / different approaches to sexuality

"I also felt stuck in terms of what I felt was a polarity in queer studies or approaches to sexuality at the time I was writing [Confessions], which really started in 2010. As far as I understood it, there were two main contradictory orientations in approaches to sexuality: one was seeing sexuality as a form of deviance, but ontologically so; and then sexuality as a modality of state power. To put it another way: sexuality as a site of discipline and control, or sexuality as a kind of germ seed of chance and contingency. To me this was the result of divergent opinion in the field as to what sexuality as an object of study is. This is a reduction on my part, but for the sake of brevity, I’ll say that we could bookmark this split around a Foucauldian trajectory which sees sexuality as a vector as power, and a new materialist orientation towards sexuality, especially transsexuality, as something that involves a hopeful embrace of trans as a kind of ur-vitalism.

This is something a colleague and friend of mine Kadji Amin and I were talking about a lot at the time I was writing. Kadji describes transness as sometimes being embraced in trans studies as a primary vitality underlying all of being and life – a kind of ahistorical, pre-ontological force. There’s this tendency to want to exempt transness from history, or at least from the balefulness, or the more unsavoury aspects, of history. Kadji points out there’s a real tension there between wanting to see transness as prior to power, and then the Foucauldian understanding of vitality and vitalism as produced by biopower. And so I was having a hard time finding out how to do queer studies within that framework, and I couldn’t figure out a way to academically intervene. 

In a way, I did want to do some of the Foucauldian work of not exempting transness from the balefulness of history, and so [in Confessions] I was trying to attach transness to questions of the birth of biopolitics and of the modern Western medical tradition – and that takes place at the level of plot in the book. But I also wanted to leave a place for a utopian urge that, with some exceptions, hasn’t really had an easy time in queer studies, and that has to do with a utopian Marxist tradition which has historically seen sexuality as naming a node within the field of reproduction and the affective, psychic and embodied life of the subject, or sexuality as naming the intersection of the field of collective action with that of state power and the juridical. So for me the Marxist trajectory – not that this has always been well-articulated within Marxism; it’s taken a lot of queer and feminist scholars to bring this out – can see sexuality as potentially marking a site of active contestation with the state and with capital and reproductive accumulative logic. I wanted to neither go the vitalist tradition nor a strictly Foucauldian tradition, but to write a text that would open a place for thinking through some of the dynamics of sexuality as a mode of conflict and contestation."

[toddvu]

If only you've cried for me once.

[tomahachi12]

How themselves are the DD’s while infected? While N was still “feral” did he instinctively not attack Uzi? Does J SPECIFICALLY target Uzi. How do N and V treat Uzi after they get the first antivirus?

Think of it like the "Night Howler" flowers from Zootopia lol

They're completely feral and highly aggressive once they get infected, and they'll attack anything that moves, even each other.

N no longer recognizes Uzi when he's first infected. He tried to attack her, but Y stepped in and stopped him, getting herself infected as result.

Y was able to create the first anti-virus patch before the virus took her over. She used it on herself to keep the virus from making her aggressive, but it didn't stop it from turning her feral.

Uzi was able to communicate well enough with Y for them to work together to get the patch to N.

After receiving the patch, N recognizes Uzi and is very affectionate with her and will protect her.

In the story, V doesn't get infected at all. If she did, it would be a bad time for everyone lol buuuut for the sake of the ask, after V gets the first patch, she treats Uzi about the same, just with more of that cat-like attitude.

When J is infected, she does target Uzi, even after she receives the first patch. She just does not like Uzi.

[lampung7com]

AS Tarik Diri dari Perjanjian Paris, Indonesia Tegaskan Komitmen pada Perubahan Iklim

Internasional – Presiden Amerika Serikat (AS) Donald Trump secara resmi mengumumkan bahwa AS akan menarik diri dari Perjanjian Paris 2016. Keputusan ini mengejutkan dunia internasional, terutama di tengah upaya global untuk mendorong transisi ke energi bersih, termasuk di negara-negara berkembang seperti Indonesia. Meski begitu, pemerintah Indonesia menegaskan tetap berkomitmen pada Perjanjian…

[clavis-est-ad-solem]

«When I saw her wife’s walking corpse, I thought she looked like this when she was alive. Although she looked pretty good even so, I must admit...»

Poison’s words about his first meeting with Carolina

[emmaginate]

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[gurutrends]

US, Colombia strike deal on deportations as tariffs, sanctions suspended

US, Colombia strike deal on deportations as tariffs, sanctions suspended The United States (US) and Colombia narrowly avoided a potential trade conflict on Sunday after the White House announced that Colombia had agreed to accept deportation flights operated by US military aircraft. President Donald Trump had previously warned of imposing tariffs and sanctions on Colombia in retaliation for its…

[silent-dreadlock]

God I fucking love avenged sevenfold I’m not gay but m shadows can get it and if I could I would fuck the guitar riffs

[ohnoidontexist]

[tree-is-xurkitree]

Pelipper mail!

A small, solid glass sphere that looks like Saturn, with it's rings, with a small stand that looks like the sun

Hello! I feel like you would like this!

- @astardustedeevee

pretty

Thank you

*holds*

Nice nice

Pretty

[clavis-est-ad-solem]

Willow‘s favorite is Hornor

[gurutrends]

Tragedy in Nigeria as Boko Haram/ISWAP attack and killed Army Commanders, other soldiers in Borno

Tragedy in Nigeria as Boko Haram/ISWAP attack and killed Army Commanders, other soldiers in Borno Boko Haram Kills Nigerian Army Commander, Two Senior Officers, 17 Soldiers in Borno Attack – On Friday, January 24, 2025, Boko Haram militants attacked the Nigerian Army’s 149 Battalion in Malam-Fatori, Borno State. This assault resulted in the deaths of over 20 military personnel, including the…